[Controversial Patch for Bug 18180] kfind sloppy match for simple search strings

[konold at mail.kde.org]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:36:05PM +0200, Klas Kalass wrote:

> > > k?ind -> kfind.cpp is NOT FOUND
> > > k?ind* -> kfind.cpp is FOUND

> I am not quite sure I understand: The syntax *is* command line wildcards plus 
> the special case that no wildcards specified is interpreted as 
> "*<searchstring>*" so that users not knowing about wildcards have an easier 

At least the example says that k?find.cpp does not match kfind.cpp but
k?find* does match. This example contradicts your explaination.

Regards,
--martin